Interesting. You can see the building from the beach and I always wondered what's inside. And while it's the only (decommissioned) nuclear power plant on Long Island, it's not the only nuclear reactor. There was also the High Flux Beam Reactor at BNL that was decommissioned in the 90s:
Interesting. You can see the building from the beach and I always wondered what's inside. And while it's the only (decommissioned) nuclear power plant on Long Island, it's not the only nuclear reactor. There was also the High Flux Beam Reactor at BNL that was decommissioned in the 90s:
https://www.bnl.gov/hfbr/
https://www.bnl.gov/hfbr/hfbr-complex.php
I think the control panels are as compelling as the big industrial rooms. Fantastic pictures!
The control panels that fuse schematics and buttons and indicators feel like a peak of design philosophy.
Intuitive, readily interpretable at a glance, spatially oriented (instead of tucked behind layers of tabs and recursive settings).